Posted on 06/21/2017 5:50:03 PM PDT by Rockitz
The car batteries used in a Tesla generate as much CO2 as driving a gasoline-powered car for eight years. And thats before they even come off the production line.
This news, from a study by the Swedish Environmental Research Institute, will no doubt delight all those U.S. taxpayers who have been forking out billions of dollars to prop up Teslas share price having been assured by their government that subsidizing overpriced electric cars represents a vital step towards combatting climate change.
The report, commissioned by the Swedish Transport Administration and the Swedish Energy Agency, cannot easily be dismissed because it is a meta-analysis (ie a summary) of all the available studies on the subject.
The report shows that the battery manufacturing leads to high emissions. For every kilowatt hour of storage capacity in the battery generated emissions of 150 to 200 kilos of carbon dioxide already in the factory. The researchers did not study individual bilmärkens batteries, how these produced or the electricity mix they use. But if we understand the great importance of play battery take an example: Two common electric cars on the market, the Nissan Leaf and the Tesla Model S, the batteries about 30 kWh and 100 kWh.
Even when buying the car has thus emissions occurred, corresponding to approximately 5.3 tons and 17.5 tons, the batteries of these sizes. The numbers can be difficult to relate to. As a comparison, a trip for one person round trip from Stockholm to New York by air causes the release of more than 600 kilograms of carbon dioxide, according to the UN organization ICAO calculation.
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Truly the enduring mystery of why Tesla is now more highly valued than such non-Potemkin U.S. car manufacturers as Ford and General Motors grows more mysterious by the hour.
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Prius drivers are now “Global Warming Deniers”!
It is the best kind of redistribution of wealth by leftists: take wealth from the people and give it to the favored few.
Claim that it is for their own good...
Whoever is pushing wind turbines and solar panels as a viable alternative to “fight climate change” also deserves a mark for similar reasons. If it were all that and a bag of chips, subsidies and hiding the whole truth would be unnecessary.
DUH
..and recall that this is before they leave the factory. How much ADDITIONAL CO2 is generated from super-green natural gas generating plants charging these batteries up? Plenty!!!
There goes the “Gaia Drives a Tesla” ad campaign.
Yup. The whole green industry is a hoax.
“Prius drivers are now Global Warming Deniers!”
Demiers? Why, they are murdering the planet!
So now I have to have one and soop it up so it burns even more kilojoules than the production models. Time to “Roll Some Coal” in my new Tesla !!
They’re not Tesla batteries either. They’re Panasonic.
“They meant well.”
Wouldn’t a true Tesla car run on wireless transmission of energy?
Wouldn’t this apply to other electric cars, including hybrids?
Maybe but definitely not on DC
Do libtards even know the majority of electricity is generated from fossil fuels?
You betcha! Plus see my post#8.
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